Donald Trump Money Quote saying in a November 1999 CNN interview that taxing top 1 percent of Americans 14% of their net worth would wipe out the national debt and he’d pay millions and thinks it worthwhile. Donald Trump said:

Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it’s worth it— Donald Trump

For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left. And the factories closed.— Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan Money Quote saying businesses must pass along sales and other taxes on the business to the customer in order to make a profit. Ronald Reagan said:

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. And if they can’t be passed on to the customer in the price of the product as a cost of operation, business goes out of business— Ronald Reagan

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power, particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets, which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations— Noam Chomsky

Bernie Sanders Money Quote saying bankers act with impunity to increase profits by defrauding the public and pay fines like they were simply business expenses. Bernie Sanders said:

Top bankers have shown no shame for their bad behavior and have made no apologies to the public. The billions and billions of dollars of fines they have paid for financial fraud are just another cost of doing business, another shortcut to unjust profits— Bernie Sanders